Hi all,

I am new to hibernate and I am using a top-down approach with hibernate-annotations (I am trying to get hibernate to generate the database schema for me, from my project's classes).
I am trying to persist only one class. I get an exception like this:
org.hibernate.MappingException: Could not determine type for: mater.MaterDisplay, for columns: [org.hibernate.mapping.Column(md)]

MaterDisplay 'md' is an attribute of the class I am persisting. Is there an annotation to exclude attributes from persistence?
Moreover, shouldn't hibernate try to map only the attributes which don't have public getter and setter?

Thanks in advance,
Rui Lopes

either make your attribute transient or use @Transient
Hibernate map all attributes or getters (depending on the position of @Id) regardless of their accessibility, as per the spec

Got It, thanks :)